• Pnyx I: Probably constructed in the early 5th century. The people apparently sat on the hillside facing a speaker's platform on the north.
  • With the passage of time, the original foundation of Pnyx changed, with the reversal of the spectator seats and the speaker’s area.
  • For the Pnyx was the meeting place of the world's first democratic legislature, the Athenian ekklesia (assembly), and the flat stone is the bema or speaker's platform.
  • It is the hill of the Pnyx or simply Pnyx. In its large and comfortable terrace, the Assembly of the citizens of the Athenian democracy was holding its regular meetings.
  • Me and my wife have visited Athens 2 times already, seen all major sites, yet we did not know about Pnyx, and it is located right opposite Acropolis!
  • Atina'nın merkezinde Pnyx Tepesi adı verilen, etrafı park alanlarıyla çevrili ve Akropolis'e bakan kayalık bir tepe vardır.
  • However, in the first century BC, Pnyx started to decline because Athens was getting bigger and it was difficult for many citizens to come to Pnyx.
  • There was a stone platform, “stepping stone”, [bema] that speakers stood on. The Pnyx facilitated and made manifest the Athenian ideal of equal speech [isēgoría].